NotebookLM’s Upgrade is a MUST for all authors

[@Google]

Thanks for this detailed review! We're excited to keep rolling out even more features to improve NotebookLM!

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

You bet!

[@TheNjordy]

Yeah. Cool. But any time I come to the page and click on ‘try notebooklm’ it just opens up a duplicate page. Every time. Day after day. On every device and browser.

[@nchershey]

I just pasted my short story into the Notebook and listened to the Podcast discussion of it - SO COOL!

[@buildingmentalmuscle]

Thanks, good video. One point though. You say at around 21:26 the podcasters tend to be excited and positive about everything. Let me tell you, if you upload crappy or questionable info, the podcasters will rip into it and be highly critical! That's good that your writing and influences are being seen in a good light. See it as a compliment! I have entered content and the podcasters at times were scathing! I have found it particularly valuable in analyzing web pages, such as sales pages. It was highly critical of countdown timers, false scarcity, questionable testimonials, questionable science etc. Since Google is the main search engine, and incorporates ai into its search algorithm, it gives you a valuable insight into what Google thinks of a webpage. And if its ai thinks the content is bad, that will obviously get reflected in lower search rankings of the page.

[@realjgerard]

Excellent use case. Thank you! 🥂

[@cedrigo]

You just answered the question I had in mind, thank you!

[@ComedorDelrico]

One thing you could do is upload the manuscript or to something like Claude and ask it to write an article that is more critical, more analytical, or whatever you're looking for. Next, upload that article to Notebook and generate a podcast. Then run the audio through Audacity and change the frequency of the podcasters' voices to make them sound different. THEN upload it as a podcast. Of course, that doesn't get around the fact that it will sometimes hallucinate or get too excited about the wrong stuff, coming across as decidedly Not Human. I've thought about using the podcast feature, then choosing the best parts to use as voiceover for short videos. That way, you can cut out the weird bits.

[@UnityMMODevelopers]

I did this yesterday with my story. Listening to the "podcast" about your story can really give you some ideas on where to take things and shows you questions and holes in your plot and story that you might not realize on your own just reading through it. Really fun tool to have!

[@emanuelec2704]

There is already a new update. Now you can give instructions to the hosts and also have them focus on specific sources.

[@emanuelec2704]

Here's an example prompt you can now use: "You are the hosts of a podcast teaching writers how they can improve. Critique the short story sent by a listener, by giving advice on what can be improved. Also make sure to point out what's good about the short story. Finally, also brainstorm together some possible ways this short story can turn into a novel."

[@68cristian]

How do you do this? I cannot see any way to give instructions to the hosts before generating the audio...can you explain please?

[@emanuelec2704]

@@68cristian There is a Customize button near the Generate button. If not, try with a new notebook, and it will be there.

[@EgoTrip42-x2c]

I’m loving everything about this post. My focus lately has been on working on my book. I think it’s incredibly valuable to have the critique incorporated into the podcast. It inspires me with countless ideas to improve my writing. No more writer's block.

[@blakeatkerson]

You can use Google tabs in docs to write your draft manuscript up to 50k words and can use NotebookLM to discuss your manuscript as 1 - 3 sources depending on the length of your work. Could also pair with writing advice sources to help with developmental edits.

[@victoriadedicova]

20:20 you can give it prompts to sound differently. Where you have to custom prompt window, you can give it custom instructions. I use it to have a single person talk, to do video voicing for me and just change the voice in Capcut.(Like a cover, you can revoice it with other things too like voice ai. Can change gender and tone, but the inflections will stay the same) You can also set long custom instructions inside a document and you tell it to use that document for brand voice. Just so you know. You can also pull the transcript and do a new voice in ai or something.

[@ruthclark7624]

Thank you for sharing this! I use this for a guide on NovelAi. There isn't a lot of info or tutorials on it out there, and I am afraid to ask questions on their discord. I added the guide and info I got from the Discord, and I can now ask it all my technical questions about how to prompt the AI in NovelAI correctly. It's so useful!

[@jessicacopeland9066]

That’s such a great idea! It’s still super unclear for me how to use Erato properly because everyone seems to be doing something different 😅

[@ruthclark7624]

​@@jessicacopeland9066 I'm just trying to figure it out as well!

[@shoufen]

Thank you for this wonderful video. I have a question: if I upload a book or any sources to Notebook LM to make a podcast, will that be possible involved in a copyright issue?

[@ClaireKinmil]

I need to finish formatting my current project asap, so I can let myself play with this! Love the idea of a Sanderson coach!

[@neopagan1976]

Wow!! I just tried this with my very first TimeScape science fiction manuscript. I'm really loving this. This podcast technology is totally awesome. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@havvaalexander9520]

Very interesting. Although the audio podcast clips were short, I would have not known it was ai voice generated had you not revealed that. I could see this being useful for a series in creating a series bible with the timeline and character breakdown.

[@HTWJ]

Thank you, this can help students too not just authors. Even other content creators.

[@cedrigo]

That' nice! I hope they will also make a tool recording a poscast with AI and yourself chatting together live.

[@montanadivacreations9267]

so helpful for teachers and home schoolers and researchers.

[@MagnusItland]

You can select 1 or more sources in the left menu, to query them separately. Doesn't that work for you? I haven't used it for my own writing yet, but it is amazing for research.

[@yoagcur]

Selecting just one source does not work for me even with the recent update. I'm not sure why they offer the opportunity to make a selection and then not act on it

[@yoagcur]

Just checked. If you now customize the audio by asking them to concentrate on one source they will do so. But the FAQ etc. still seem to cover all sources

[@emmegrange]

🤯 so excited about this! Thanks for the insights

[@basicguy5785]

The audio overview is definitely too positive. I generated it from a half finished novel I'm currently writing, and after hearing the"pod cast" I simple can't wait to read the book and also see the movie and theater adaptions 😂

[@CollectionSubjects]

Thank You Mr. Jason Hamilton. It was useful I suggest that you create a podcast site for novels that works with artificial intelligence, for example, you upload the novel and it creates separate voices for the characters.

[@mommyof4grlz]

I'm have my story bible going as well! And my podcasts have sparked some ideas! It's awesome to find a KZbin creator backs-up my idea! Not that I thought it was original, but that I came to it on my own. I think it would be cool to have a podcast that analyzes the NLM podcast where real humans also have the sources.

[@ManiSaint-VictorMD]

Thanks for this. How many is few sources before it loses effectiveness in summary

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

It really depends on the length of the source material.

[@ManiSaint-VictorMD]

@@TheNerdyNovelist thanks!

[@alessandrosalvaggio6772]

notebookLM to create podcasts.. i've created a small python to separate the voices (it creates 2 files, male.mp3, female.mp3) that you can use to feed into the various "hedra" or other saas to create talking avatars. No more struggles to manually separate the voices! (of course the audio files contain the "silences" when the other character is not speaking, so they perfectly match).

[@Olaf_Schwandt]

you can upload mp3s to

[@sacredharps]

It's not giving me the options you show. It's only asking me if I want to make notes on the video. Somehow I'm not getting the beta version and don't know how to fix that. I am hopeful I can try this soon! EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED. I have two gmail accounts; I did realize taht I was accessing KZbin from one and uploading to the other. It was pulling up my source file but not giving me the guide. It wasn't counting it as a source either so I was puzzled. As soon as I logged in to the same google account as the youtube video I was uploading, and accessed notebooklm, then I got the whole guide.

[@JeffNeubauerJesus24365]

Thank you NN! Blessings!

[@carolseymour1105]

HOw do you download a novel in notebooklm or how do you download PDF's?

[@lengreenhall2724]

what would be a best way to promote a product using the upgrade

[@ScullyPop]

Awesome video!

[@alaaji2]

Regarding the audio guide, can you not just uncheck all of the sources except for the one and have it create the podcast from that one checked source? That's how it works when asking questions of the sources.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

I’ll have to test this.

[@keithprice3369]

Does it lose detail if there's too much material? Or if the material is too diverse? For example, you stopped at two videos and they were both on Plot. Was the reason for stopping there due to the other videos being on other topics or just sheer volume of information that NotebookLM would struggle with? And on that note, what's the point of the 50 document capacity if it loses too much detail after just a few?

[@matt_v2305]

Hi Jason. How can you be sure that once you've put your own docs into the AI, that they don't now become a resource for that AI? Essentially increasing the chance that your ideas, or a form of, can be given to other users. Would be keen to hear your thoughts on this.

[@jessicacopeland9066]

I was worried about that too.

[@marianacarina2580]

It said when I opened it that they don't use the user's information, but honestly that's a load of bs coming from Google. They track everything. I'd stick with the idea that "ideas are cheap and the execution is what matters" and not paste the whole docs in that place, or just use it to study other's people's works/videos.

[@MagnusItland]

They're stating right there at the start page that they don't do that. However, there is a risk that human reviewers (i.e. Google employees) may see your interactions with the program, so please do not upload sensitive information. And this program is available in Europe, so they won't get away with blatantly false advertising. I kind of wish they would steal my ideas, honestly, because life is far too short to use them all myself. But they don't.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

Even if that happens you don’t have to worry about it. It’s difficult to 100% plagerize anything with Ai. And ideas are cheap. The idea never matters as much as the execution. And even if two authors had the same idea at the same time (which does happen) they would be two VERY different books. Just from personal style alone.

[@matt_v2305]

​@TheNerdyNovelist Thanks Jason.

[@YT-zy7wd]

Cool video! One question. Are you worried about uploading your works in progress and unpublished novels to Google? I know they say they won't be using the data to train their models but what is your view on it? Corporations are not usually that trustworthy when it comes to privacy and security issues.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

Not worried at all. Even if they did use it for training, I know how AI training works. It’s not going to infringe on anything.

[@YT-zy7wd]

@@TheNerdyNovelist I hope you're right. In May of this year Google was sued for training their AI image generator (Imagen) on copyrighted content without authorization.

[@Madfattdeeb]

So all my characters have their own Google Doc write up. Am I correct in thinking I should put all this info into one big Google Doc before adding it into this bible?

[@galightman]

thanks bro!!!

[@boukmananddessalines5522]

Thanks

[@agente_ai]

Uh....hate to tell you this...but this is not "NEW UPDATES"....nothing you seem to have just discovered are NEW - you're late to the table. The podcast feature/audio overview, youtube source link, etc are already...past the curve. And for the record - not all links are functional as many media sites have restrictions on use. Now - for those who clicked thinking they were gonna find REAL UPDATE INFO for NotebookLM - here you go: There is an update to the audio overview feature. This new update simply allows you to prompt the audio to focus more on certain topics in your sources or change how it presents its information such as speaking to an expert crowd or general audience. have a nice day, y'all!

[@UnityMMODevelopers]

wow do you really have to be so rude?

[@68cristian]

I cant see how to do this. could you elaborate please?

[@agentred8732]

You are dead wrong. And should apologize. There has been a significant update to NotebookLM that give the user far more control. Perhaps you missed the news.

[@avi7278]

You roast him but then don't even explain how to do the thing you're speaking about. FAIL.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@UnityMMODevelopers yeah stop repeating content!!!

[@kc0itf]

Use the Customize button before you create the podcast to instruct it on what to focus on!

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

Yeah that came out the day this video was released

I have been using NotebookLMs note feature a lot making notes fore different characters, history/culture, technology, creatures etc. But I find the AI-part of NotebookLM laking when trying to use it to draw from different notes to write new stuff... but hopefully it will get better

[@cris-in-tokyo]

The more I use the podcast function, the more I find the third guy appering out of the blue kind of creepy. At the end of the podcasts a third host starts appearing. It starts with a humming or something and then finishes the podcast with a comment. Totally uninvited haha.

[@mamunahmed2506]

Wonderful...

[@arcanecrime]

Hi, I’m new to your channel but I’ve been loving your content. Quick question for you, can notebookLM be used for NSFW content? I’ve found that it does the best job of imitating my writing voice and was thinking about using it to help me draft my murder mystery novel

[@orthodox_gentleman]

These have been features for several weeks now.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

I was in the hospital.

[@jamesongnotjamesbond7018]

hi, can somebody do a international podcast series , i.e in Japanese, spain, mandarin,... , i chk in internet there is a jailbreaking course to made LM speak in international slang but i fail .

[@milestrombley1466]

I whether clone my own voice if I want to make my own podcast because I have a speaking issue.

[@FlightofTheHarpysHeart]

what i need is an AI where i can update my world building and edit them while the AI oversee and warn me whether i would like to make change or add something that could potentially contradict the world building.. i real time.

[@montanadivacreations9267]

I am sure they will add different voices in the near future.

[@hansmaus2169]

🐼

[@chrisduryea9867]

Okay, I just uploaded a world building/history and character profiles for work in very much the ideation/planning phase... and the results are a little unsettling.

[@clifdavis2]

How so?

[@CassperLive]

New info please.

[@cherrlyn381]

By putting in your own sources, you wouldn't have to worry about AI making up sources.

[@thewritestuff-u8n]

Somebody tell George RR Martin about NotebookLM

[@dcotai2902]

Omg…..more badd….news Hollywood writers 😢😢😮😮😅

[@elektroskeptic481]

It's for scientific papers, and it's just for making digests. It doesn't help you write anything.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

Yeah I don’t use it for writing. That’s not what it helps with.

[@jackelmy392]

Why do you say it's for scientific papers? Are you thinking of Illuminate?

[@elektroskeptic481]

@@jackelmy392 meaning it's not really doing anything for you if you're writing fiction. It's for scrubbing, aggregating, annotations etc. Boring stuff, for short))

[@emanuelec2704]

@@elektroskeptic481 The podcasters' conversation can help brainstorm new perspectives, new angles, new themes. It can help with inspiration and creativity.

[@nickscottcomposer1]

@@TheNerdyNovelist "NotebookLM’s Upgrade is a MUST for all authors" " I don’t use it for writing. That’s not what it helps with."